The Sonestown Covered Bridge is a Burr arch truss covered bridge over
Muncy Creek in Davidson Township, Sullivan County, in the U.S. state of
Pennsylvania. Built c. 1850, the bridge is 110 feet (34 m) long, and
was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1980.
The bridge is named for the nearby unincorporated village of Sonestown;
it was built to provide access to a gristmill, which operated until the
early 20th century. The bridge construction is cruder than the other
two surviving covered bridges in Sullivan County, with each Burr arch
formed from six straight beams set at angles instead of a smooth curve.
Despite being repaired or restored several times from 1969, as of 2016
the bridge was deemed "basically intolerable requiring high priority of
corrective action" on the National Bridge Inventory. It is the shortest
covered bridge in the county and as of 2015 had average daily traffic of
50 vehicles.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonestown_Covered_Bridge>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1911:
Established by Clara Zetkin, Käte Duncker, and others, the
first International Women's Day was observed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Zetkin>
1962:
Influential American musician Bob Dylan released his eponymous
debut album, mainly comprising traditional folk songs.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan>
1987:
American televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as the host of The
PTL Club in the midst of a sex scandal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker>
2016:
Flydubai Flight 981 crashed during an aborted landing at
Rostov-on-Don Airport, Russia, resulting in the deaths of all 62
passengers and crew on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flydubai_Flight_981>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
skulduggery:
1. (countable) A devious device or trick.
2. (uncountable) Dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or
behaviour.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skulduggery>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
No one I know of has foreseen an America like the one we live in
today. No one (except perhaps the acidic H. L. Mencken, who famously
described American democracy as "the worship of jackals by jackasses")
could have imagined that the 21st-century catastrophe to befall the
U.S.A., the most debasing of disasters, would appear not, say, in the
terrifying guise of an Orwellian Big Brother but in the ominously
ridiculous commedia dell’arte figure of the boastful buffoon.
--Philip Roth
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Roth>
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